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The Imperial County Superior Court is the California superior court located in Imperial County. The superior court operates four courthouses throughout the county. As of 2017, the presiding judge of the court is Brooks Anderholt, and the interim court executive officer is Maria Rhinehart. The court has over 100 employees, 10 judges, and 2 ...
[27] [28] In contrast, inferior courts were creatures of statute and thus were slightly more difficult to rearrange. Judges stationed at rural superior courts too small to set up specialized divisions must be generalists who can handle everything; the state judicial education center provides a special training program for "Cow County Judges". [29]
In California, the power of the intermediate courts of appeal over the superior courts is quite different from the power of the courts of appeals of the federal government over the federal district courts. The first Court of Appeal to rule on a new legal issue will bind all lower superior courts statewide. However, litigants in other appellate ...
The superior courts also have appellate divisions (superior court judges sitting as appellate judges) which hear appeals from decisions of other superior court judges (or commissioners, or judges pro tem) in cases previously heard by inferior courts, such as infractions, misdemeanors, and "limited civil" actions (actions where the amount in ...
In April 1999, Johnson was appointed to the federal bench as a United States magistrate judge.He was reappointed to a second term in April 2007. [1] [9]While on the federal bench, he served on several committees of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, including the Capital Cases Committee, the Rules Committee, the Criminal Justice Act Committee, and the ...
Guerrero was approved by a 3-0 vote of the Commission on Judicial Appointments on March 22, 2022 [6] and is the first Latina to serve on the Supreme Court of California. [5] On August 10, 2022, Governor Newsom nominated Guerrero to serve as the chief justice of California. [7] On August 26, she was confirmed by the Commission on Judicial ...
Solano County still possessed municipal courts despite the establishment of the superior court. By 1987, there was the Solano County Superior Court, Vallejo Municipal Court District, and Northern Solano Judicial District (which comprised the Fairfield-Suisun-Vacaville Judicial and the Dixon Judicial Districts). [ 3 ]
Placer County was one of the original counties formed in 1850 when California gained statehood. The first Placer County Court was organized with a temporary wood and canvas courthouse erected in 1851 on Auburn's Court Street. A two-story wooden courthouse was built shortly thereafter and the Court of Sessions was held f